Sunday, March 6, 2011

Say Whats Real

This is a music video made by three little girls. In it they are complaining about lil Waynes negative lyrics in his music. This puts me at an impasse, you see, I partially agree with them, Lil Wayne helps to make rap an easy target to special interest groups. His music is very explicit, and I can't argue with that. But Wayne's lyrics are also very abstract and in a way, its an artform. Go and listen to six foot seven a couple posts down and see what I mean. Honestly though, the girls singing this song are between 5 and 10 years old, so really, if they, or their parents are intelligent enough to criticize this music, then they should realize that Lil Wayne is not meant for 5 year olds anyway. I feel like rap is always the music industrie's whipping boy, why not go after death metal and punk rock? There has been a link between certain punk rock and emo songs and suicide. And some death metal lyrics are just as bad, and border more on violence than todays rap. So, while these girls are right, maybe they should just go back to watching Dora the Explorer, and whatever else 5 year olds do.(Matt Farmer)

2 comments:

  1. Excellent writing! Keep it up!

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  2. Nice to see a post about something important for once

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